Re: Installing and booting and OF3 machine from a single empty internaldisk, not working

[Andy Ruhl <acruhl%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Izumi Tsutsui 
<tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost> wrote:
> When I checked what actually failed on my G4 on netboot,
> it looked that OpenFirmware sent a bootp request on OF_open() call
> in src/sys/arch/macppc/stand/ofwboot/ofdev.c:devopen()
> and dhcp server answered it, but OF didn't accept it.
>
> I'm afraid there is another OF quirks, but I wonder if there is
> any other OS which can open files via network on OF3 machines..

I didn't check. I will try FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Linux to see what I can find.

I think I saw someone trying to netboot OSX on a G4 machine and it was
failing too...

Andy